Garment-supporter.



PATENTED. OUT. 2, 1906.

F. SHAEFER. GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. e. 1906.

d ZE/VTOR FRED SHAEFER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA.

GARMENT-SUPPORTER- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

Application filed April 6,1906. Serial No. 310.320.

To all whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED SHAEFER, of Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, and in the State of Georgia, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Garment Supporters and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the ac companying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a garment-supporter embodying my invention applied to the waistband of a pair of trousers to support the drawers, and Fig. 2 is a like View of the same shown detached and the {lastening-pin separated from the supportingook.

The object of my invention is to provide a garment-supporter that will combine the important advantages of cheapness of manufacture, ease of attachment and removal, ready adaptability or adjustability to position to best support a garment, and absence of such construction as would cause undue wear of or injury to the garment; and to these ends my invention consists in the garment-supporter constructed substantially as hereinafter specified and claimed.

The embodiment of my invention which I illustrate in the drawings consists of a plate forming the body portion A and an integral hook B, formed by bending a portion of the plate upward and bringing its free end close to or in contact with the body portion, so that the loop of the drawers when slipped over the hook will not become accidentally disengaged therefrom. The plate is preferably made of some elastic sheet metal, so that the hook may be sprung away from and back to the body portion A. At its upper edge the body portion A has at opposite sides two lugs a, whose'top edges are bent over to form horizontal eyes for the reception of an attaching-pin C, that is passed first through one eye, then through a portion of the waistband of the trousers, and then through the other eye. The pin C has a head 0, and to lock it in place there is contiguous to one of the eyes a an upwardly-extending finger D, that is formed by a vertical slit d, that leaves the upper end of the finger adj acentsaid eye free, so that the finger may be pushed or sprung laterally out of alinement with the pin-receiving eye to permit the insertion or the removal of the pin. When the finger end springs or comes back into alinement with the pin C when in the eyes, it prevents the escape of the pin therefrom, and thus the accidental detachment of the supporter. The pin C may be an ordinary stick-pin, and as the supporter may be stamped out of sheet metal it will be evident that my device can be most cheaply made.

It will be evident that by reason of the form of attaching means I employ the supporter may be placed in just the right position for comfortably and properly supporting the drawers and may be most easily removed and replaced.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A garment-supporter comprising a garment-engaging part and a body portion having a pin-engaging eye into and out of which the pin is longitudinally movable, and an integral laterally-movable finger separated by a slit extending in a direction crosswise of the eye having a free end contiguous to said eye in position to obstruct the endwise passage of the pin therethrough.

2. A garment-supporter comprising a body portion, a hook at the lower end of the latter,

eyes at the upper edge of the body portion, a laterally-movable finger separated by a slit,

with a free end contiguous to one of the eyes,

and a headed pin passing through the eyes with its head next said finger.

' In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand. v

FRED SHAEFER. Witnesses:

J. F. PRICE, G. W. PAYNE. 

